Educational apparatus



W. STRANDERS.

EDUCATIONAL APPARATUS. PucATloN FILED mAYz 92 |111 www IIINIHIIIIIHIIII Patented Sept.. 5t, i922..

, anatre WALTER STRANDERS, 0F LONDON, ENGLAND.

EDUCATIONAL APPARATUS.

. Application led May 2,

To all whom z'v' may concern.'

Be it known that l, WALTER STRANDEns, a subject of the King of England, residing at London, in England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Educational Apparatus, of which the following is a specication. l

rlhis invention consists in improvements in or relating to educational apparatus particularly in the kindergarten for teaching spelling.

According to this invention, apparatusl for teaching spelling comprises the combination withl a series of separate letters, each having a strip of distinctive colour, of keyelements, which may be 'for example, either object pictures or Word bars, each having at one edge, in the correct order, strips of colour corresponding with the colours on `the letters required to make u a particular Word 'or the name of the ob3ect in the picture. y

The accompanying drawing illustrates, by We? of example, inmi igure l a picture: and in 1 Figure 2 warlord-bar, with the corresponding letters laid in place adjacent thereto.

A box of 'appliances for teaching spelling, according to this invention, may comprise,

v:tor example, six letters, each printed in bold aper secured to the surface' block type on of a rectangu ar straw-board or Wooden plate, such as l Figure 2. Upon this plate carrying a singleletter is a strip 2 of distinctive colour extending along the top of the plate above the letter. Each letter in the set has an appropriate colour allotted to it,

for example, the letters and appropriate colours may be`z A, red' E, yellow; C, blue; E, black; 0, orange; E, purple.

, 'l`he' box also contains one or preferably a :number of pictures such as the one illustrated in Figurel, each printed on a sheet of paper secured on a backing of straw-board or Wood. At one edge of the picture, pre-,

.er-ably the lower edge, there is a series yot ,strips of colour 3, 4, 5, 6 each strip of the v samev length as the strips 'of colour on theV Woodenplates carrying the letters. These strips of colour are arrangedin order, corre spending With the colours over the letters which make upthe name of the object in the picture.

rlhus in Figure 1 the stri-ps of colour'3, 4,' 5,. 6 are respectively, yellow, orange, red and 1921. Serial No. 466,191.

purple, and the letters lwhich have these colours on their upper edge When arranged so that their colours match'against the picture, spell the Word BOR. p

In Figure 2, here is illustrated a Word-bar 7, which -is provided with a series of strips of colour to be matched With suitable letters similarly to the strips 3, 4, 5 6 on Figure 1. rlhe box of appliances preferably contains a number of pictures and Word-barsso chosen that a considerable number of Words can be built up yby matching the colours out of the simple assortment of letters supplied. The method vof using theapparatus may vary considerabl according to the Wishes of the teacher or t e fancy of the child, but broadly speaking, the child has only to match the colours of the letters to the colours under the pictures, and then the name of the article is set out under the picture. Thus the child finds that it has put the Word together, and so learns to spell.

The features of construction ofthe appliances may be varied Without departing from this invention. -Thus the separate characters may be in any type or script, and

Words in"`\any language and need notbe alphabetical. For example, some ofthem may be numerical characters.

Wooden blocks may be used 'for the letters. ln the case of Wooden plates bothv sides may be used or. in the-case of cubical blocks each of the six sides may be used to exhibit, for

example, one letter and a corresponding strip of colour. Also, it will be evident that the number of pictures, Word-bars or letters chosen may be any desired.

What l 'claim-as in invention and desire to secure by Letters atent is l l. ln educational apparatus the combination of aplurality of separate letter-elements each bearin an area of distinctive colour and a key-.e ement bearing va series of distinctively coloured areas 1n an order such that the letter-elements when matchedtherewith by their coloured areas are arranged'as desired.

2. In educational apparatusv the/combination of a plurality of separate letter-elements each' bearing an area of distinctive colour1v and an object picture bearing Ya series of distinctively coloured areas in an order such that the letter-elements When matched therewith by their coloured areas are arranged as desired. I l

3. In educational apparatus the combination of a plurality of separate plates each bearin an alphabetical letter and an area of distinctive colour, and a key-element bearing a series of distinctively coloured areas in an order such that the letter elements when matched therewith by their coloured areas are arranged as desired.

4f. In educational apparatus the combination of a plurality of separate plates each bearin tive co our along one edge of the plate, and a key-element bearing aseries of strips of a character and an areaof distinc-` distinctive colour-alongy one edge in such position that the colours on the plates canv such that the plates when matched -there- I with b the coloured strips are arranged as desire In testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specificationD WALTER sraANDERs. 

